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Definition of Rope down
1. Verb. Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside. "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
Category relationships: Athletics, Sport
Entails: Mountaineer
Generic synonyms: Come Down, Descend, Fall, Go Down
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rope Down
Literary usage of Rope down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1838)
"In this latter case, if there be any excess, or preponderance of gravity, in the
descending carriages, beyond what is requisite to drag the rope down the ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads, and Interior Communication in General by Nicholas Wood (1838)
"In this latter case, if there be any excess, or preponderance of gravity, in the
descending carriages, beyond what is requisite to drag the rope down the ..."
3. A Text-book of Coal-mining: For the Use of Colliery Managers and Others by Herbert William Hughes (1904)
"Keeping the rope down.—Where the gradients vary considerably, especially at the
foot of a steep incline, when the ropes work over the tubs and open-topped ..."
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